Results 1-20 of 92 for revert speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will come to the issue of the money now. I will revert to the spend to date on the metro north and MetroLink projects. Mr. Doocey from the Department stated that metro north is now a separate project. When I asked for clarification on this just after I started this meeting, Mr. Creegan clarified that €158 million was spent on the metro up to December 2023. Does that include the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: To revert to accommodation for Ukrainians, a lot has been said already about it. In terms of the cost, Mr. McCarthy outlined the costs. Sorry, does Deputy Kelly want to come back in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: That report has been in place for a number of years. Let us act on it. Mr. McCarthy has provided a progress report. Perhaps he could revert to the committee with a note providing further details. Another issue that arises-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: Mr. Delaney might revert to me.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I can bring the Deputy back in if he has another couple of questions. I will revert to capacity and accommodation with regard to the nine houses the we have gone through some of the shortcomings and risks with the private sector. In terms of the nine homes Tusla has purchased, what is potential the capacity of those?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will revert to the processing of applications for a moment. In 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, 3,434 decisions were made. In 2022, it rose to 4,988. In 2023, 9,000 decisions were made. If you look at the numbers that are applying, 92% of cases decided in 2022 were processed within three years so 8% are taking longer than three years which is an extraordinary length of time; 62% of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I will just revert to the figures in terms of decisions. In 2022, some 10,217 decisions were outstanding from a total of 13,651 applications. In 2023 there was an improvement in that there were 13,227 applications-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: I want to revert to the Children's hospital and discuss cost overruns. What is the timeline for the projected opening of the hospital? Will someone please confirm the date for the committee? I think Mr. Tierney was answering.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Brian Stanley: Could we revert to the discretionary payment to the social welfare branch managers. The three offices in Laois are rated on that basis. I find them very efficient. In fact, one of them is nearly next door to me. Suzanne in the-----

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund (23 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: As a follow-on to that, I revert to my point on affordability, which was further developed by Deputy Burke. Where accommodation is built using this funding, who controls it and who sets the rent? Is it the case that the money is handed to a company, which builds the accommodation and then sets the rents, manages the property and so on? How does it work?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management (16 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: I want to revert to the issue of consultancy fees for a few minutes. One of the standout ones is Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, with a reported €2.1 million in consultancy fees, and then through freedom of information we read that it is actually €86.1 million. I want to raise this with Mr. Moloney in a helpful way. When one sees a heading like business-as-usual...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...finds that the offer from RTÉ to provide a note on the note of the meeting of 7 May 2020 is not acceptable. The committee has discussed its response. We will issue a response to RTÉ and we hope it will revert to us by close of business on Monday. If we do not receive a response by that time, we will consider that we are not getting a response to it and we will deal with it in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. I have flagged this item. If any members wish to come in on it, they will see the correspondence. It is No. R2211 B. Basically, RTÉ is reverting to us to say there are some suggestions that it suppressed information and did not make it available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...agreed? Do members wish to comment on it? We wrote to the office of the president seeking a reply. The letter states "We are currently considering this with our legal advisers, and we hope to revert to the Committee in relation to the request to supply the McKenna report within the next week." The letter is dated 31 May. I hope the reply arrives shortly. We are halfway through June...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (1 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...and will be on the list ahead of others. The scheme has worked well to date, but it was correct to point out that affordability had become an issue in the past two years. Will the witnesses revert to Deputy Munster on the specific case in Louth she raised? Will they also liaise with the county manager to try to get on top of the situation? Is all of the money from last year gone? Can...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...We will move on to accounts and financial statements. We will return to this item at next week's meeting. Members will know we are in a period where we do not have to do any of these but we will revert to that next week. The next item is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion at this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: We are going to revert back.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I will revert to forestry. There was an underspend of €34 million on forestry in 2021 and that was attributed to the licensing process, the volume of appeals and so on. Has the implementation of the 2020 Act sped up the licensing process significantly? What is the processing time now?

Public Accounts Committee: An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2021 (27 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: What we need are mixed developments. The witnesses have been asked to revert on the question of the number of oral hearings in 2022.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed) (20 Apr 2023)

Brian Stanley: From Mr. Makhlouf's answer, particularly his reference to Germany and Sweden, it is not necessarily the poorer, emerging economies in eastern Europe that are reverting more to cash. Mr. Makhlouf is saying that some of the wealthier countries that have higher GDPs, like Germany, are doing it.